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bga_250075 - GALLIA - CARNUTES (Beauce area) Bronze CATAL à l’aigle et à l’amphore

GALLIA - CARNUTES (Beauce area) Bronze CATAL à l’aigle et à l’amphore AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 220.00 €
Type : Bronze CATAL à l’aigle et à l’amphore
Date: après 52 AC.
Mint name / Town : Chartres (28)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 2,87 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Rare bronze frappé sur un flan un peu ovale et très légèrement ébréché. Types complets de frappe vigoureuse, avec des zones plus mal venues. Patine vert sombre et brillante
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : CATAL.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, les cheveux ornés d’un ruban ; feuille derrière la tête ; légende devant le visage, grènetis.

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Aigle de trois quarts, sur une foudre, la tête à gauche ; une amphore surmontée d’un annelet centré à sa gauche ; un sceptre (?) à sa droite ; deux esses de part et d’autre de la tête, grènetis.

Commentary


Il est très intéressant de noter que ces bronzes épigraphes CATAL (MONNAIES XV, n° 600-601) ont la caractéristique de présenter une feuille de vigne derrière la nuque, tout comme le bronze TASGIITIOS (MONNAIES XV, n° 596-597).
Au droit, la légende CATAL est complète, avec les deux dernières lettres mal venues, à peine lisibles.
It is very interesting to note that these CATAL epigraph bronzes (COINS XV, no. 600-601) have the characteristic of presenting a vine leaf behind the neck, just like the bronze TASGIITIOS (COINS XV, no. 596-597). On the obverse, the legend CATAL is complete, with the last two letters badly placed, barely legible

Historical background


GALLIA - CARNUTES (Beauce area)

(2nd - 1st century BC)

The Carnutes were one of the most important and powerful peoples of independent Gaul. Their territory stretched between the Loire and the Seine over the Orléanais, the Blésois and the Chartrain country as far as Mantes, that is to say the greater part of the current departments of Loiret, Loir-et-Cher and Eure-et-Loir and part of Yvelines. Their economic center was located in Genabum (Orléans), but their main oppidum seems to have been Autricum (Chartres). They would have participated in the legendary Bellovèse expedition to Italy. They formed the geographical center of Gaul and, long before the start of the Gallic Wars, Roman merchants knew the way to Genabum (Orléans), then a major commercial center. The Carnutes were also famous for their forest where the annual meeting of the Druids was held.. At the start of the War, Caesar had wintered with the Carnutes in 57 BC.. -VS. and had imposed on them as king Tasgetios, who was assassinated in 54 BC. -VS. The following year, they submit but at the beginning of 52 BC. -VS. , they are perhaps at the origin of the revolt which will raise the whole of Gaul. It is possible that the conspirators met during a druidic assembly. The Carnutes massacred the Roman settlers and merchants of Genabum (Orleans) under the leadership of Cotuatos and Conconnétodumnos. Caesar came to besiege the city which he took, pillaged and burned, marking the beginning of hostilities. The Carnutes then provided a contingent of twelve thousand men to the relief army in order to clear Alesia. After the fall of Vercingetorix, the following year, the Romans carried out a new campaign of pacification and Caesar punished the assassins of the previous year. Caesar (BG. II. 35; V, 25, 29, 56; VI, 2-4, 13, 44; VII. 2, 3, 11, 75; VIII. 4, 5, 31, 38, 46). Strabo (G. IV, 2, 3); Livy (HR. V, 34). Ptolemy (G. II, 8). Kruta: 68, 187, 334.

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